After hanging out for several hours, the victim got into a “playfight” with Hall. Things escalated from there, Duffin said.
The four suspects now charged with hate crimes tied up the victim and began to torture him for hours, streaming the attack on Facebook, police said.
A neighbor living downstairs asked the group to quiet down and called police. Angered that the neighbor called the cops, the Covington sisters went downstairs and kicked in their door. They stole from the neighbor’s home on the way out, police said.
While they were downstairs, the victim escaped and wandered down the street, where Officer Donnelly found him battered and bloodied.
Later, officers responded to a battery at a home in the 3300 block of West Lexington Street and found signs of a struggle and damage to property, police said.
They were able to connect the victim to the home.
“[They] put the pieces of the puzzle together,” Donnelly said at a Thursday news conference.
Officers learned of the video and questioned suspects in the case.
The man was held for one or two days in the home and was “traumatized” after the incident, police said. They said it took the man most of the night to speak to officers about what happened.
A GoFundMe campaign to help the victim has raised more than $15,400 since it was launched early Thursday.
Though the video shows people saying “f— Donald Trump” and “f— white people,” police said they don’t think the attack was politically motivated.
Some of the comments could be chalked up to mere “stupidity,” Supt. Johnson said.
“I really can’t say what’s in the mind of four individuals that would do something as sickening as this,” Johnson said. “But I can’t connect what these folks did” with Trump’s comments about Chicago violence.
“It’s people just ranting about something they think might make a headline.”
The four are scheduled to appear in bond court on Friday, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.
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